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August 21, 2011 at 8:10 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread (August 2011) #1044516

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chin up matey

“This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available.”

:rolleyes:

August 21, 2011 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread (August 2011) #1044671

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OK, I told him …..

August 21, 2011 at 2:22 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread (August 2011) #1044836

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… not to mention writing Fairy Stories :diablo:

August 21, 2011 at 1:58 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread (August 2011) #1044846

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Oh dear!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220838110874
another well-rounded provenance :rolleyes:

August 12, 2011 at 3:15 pm in reply to: Making Cockpit Canopies #1057650

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yep, (6mm perspex copies). I’m going to make some kind of frame to mount them on top of my instrument panel.

August 12, 2011 at 1:01 pm in reply to: Making Cockpit Canopies #1057798

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As luck would have it look what arrived today 🙂

August 8, 2011 at 1:35 pm in reply to: Stirling fuselage #1064133

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If it’s the bit I’m thinking of, it’s a Lancaster :rolleyes:

July 31, 2011 at 11:37 pm in reply to: Astro Compass #1075850

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Bad news: you have some bits missing at the top (there should be an extra gunsight-type bit through which you line up the stars and an adjusting knob)

Good news: you have also got the standard at the bottom

July 1, 2011 at 10:05 am in reply to: P8 Compass question #1049205

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AP1275 gives 5 3/8″ for a P6 which I think is the same size

June 28, 2011 at 10:07 am in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread #1055871

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There is also the auction category, I think more potential buyers would be scanning the goodies in ‘aircraft parts’ rather than are looking at ‘aeronautica’.

June 26, 2011 at 10:28 pm in reply to: Bay Service Abbreviations #1057875

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VX158 Short Sperrin proto 😮
WD158 Vickers Valetta C1 😉
WG158/ WN 158 Balliol T2

or maybe completely wrong of course, if only it could talk

June 26, 2011 at 11:00 am in reply to: Bay Service Abbreviations #1058603

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thanks Tony T. I can see a chink of light now …

T/F NIL……………..freshly overhauled ( or new -date of manufacture was 1955)
A/C 158……………fitted to “158” – why was it simply 158 and not ??158
A/F 848.45………..at airframe hours
DATE 6.6.56………in June 1956

So I am looking for an aircraft big enough to take a D.R. compass known as 158 which was possibly built in about 1955 and had done 848 hours by June 1956 🙂

June 26, 2011 at 1:09 am in reply to: Bay Service Abbreviations #1058830

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Hmm, pretty sure that A/F and T/F are in hours.

Another example
BS/ NIC/10/59 Nicosia fits with the date and the Canberra B2 serial
AF 1669.31 hrs
TF 219.20 hrs
AC WJ618

June 11, 2011 at 9:23 pm in reply to: Part Identification #1081319

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It is probably part of a wireless installation and 175V happens to be the HT voltage. (Nothing to do with 115V)

June 8, 2011 at 12:57 am in reply to: Bubble Sextant mk1x #1085349

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😎
I have one of these, mine is 5772/40 (V). The prime manufacturer was Henry Hughes & Son but the V indicates that it was made by the Venner Timeswitch company which ran a shadow factory. (just as well, as far as I remember Henry Hughes was bombed.) These are so nice to hold by the grips and all the controls are at your fingertips. As with most of these, no bubble in mine. There is lots of sites on the internet, not terribly valuable in cash terms though.
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